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Greetings all. I am currently interested in generating maps for the various role playing games I play. Chief among them are Pathfinder, and Traveller. I run the site TravellerHighport.com which is a traveller trade engine. You can currently enter the name of a planet in the Traveller universe (it will autocomplete for you), look up it's statistics and other info, and initiate trade between worlds. It's a GM time saver. Feel free to check it out.

My current interest is fleshing out some the sites functionality. I'm looking to add some simplistic maps and that's why I decided to popup here. Ideas are welcomed.

Hi there Ark, welcome to the Guild! Have a look around the Tutorials sections and you'll find tons of cartography tutorials. There are somewhat less planet systems tutorials (though I think there may be one or two). Also, I know that Deviantart has quite a few tutorials on planetary mapping. Best of luck to you.